Re: [PATCH 1/2 v3] eventfs: Remove eventfs_file and just use eventfs_inode

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Tue, 19 Sep 2023 18:41:09 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> wrote:

> > > >  	ti = get_tracefs(inode);
> > > >  	if (!(ti->flags & TRACEFS_EVENT_INODE))
> > > > @@ -375,10 +485,18 @@ static int eventfs_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
> > > >  
> > > >  	ei = ti->private;
> > > >  	idx = srcu_read_lock(&eventfs_srcu);
> > > > -	list_for_each_entry_srcu(ef, &ei->e_top_files, list,
> > > > +	list_for_each_entry_srcu(ei_child, &ei->children, list,
> > > >  				 srcu_read_lock_held(&eventfs_srcu)) {
> > > >  		mutex_lock(&eventfs_mutex);
> > > > -		dentry = ef->dentry;
> > > > +		dentry = ei_child->dentry;
> > > > +		mutex_unlock(&eventfs_mutex);    
> > > 
> > > If someone add a directory via eventfs_create_dir() in parallel, is this
> > > local mutex_lock able to protect from that? (usually it may not happen.)  
> > 
> > That would require an event being added and created at the same time. Not
> > sure that is possible.
> > 
> > We could try it?  
> 
> Not sure, but both eventfs_release() and eventfs_create_dir() will be
> called from dynamic events, right? But the dynamic events will protect
> the create/delete operation with a mutex, so it should not happen if
> I understand correctly.
> But if the eventfs requires such external exclusion for the operation,
> it should be commented.

Hmm, actually looking at this, it's worse than what you stated. This is
called when a directory is closed. So if you had:

	open(dir);

	// look at all the content of this dir to create dentries

	// another task creates a new entry and looks at it too.

	close(dir);

Now we iterate over all the dentries of the dir and dput it.

I think this will cause the ref counts to get out of sync. I'll have to try
to create this scenario and see what happens.



> 
> >   
> > >   
> > > > +		if (dentry)
> > > > +			dput(dentry);
> > > > +	}
> > > > +
> > > > +	for (i = 0; i < ei->nr_entries; i++) {
> > > > +		mutex_lock(&eventfs_mutex);
> > > > +		dentry = ei->d_children[i];
> > > >  		mutex_unlock(&eventfs_mutex);    
> > > 
> > > Ditto. Maybe I'm misunderstanding how eventfs_mutex is used.  
> > 
> > I'll have to go back and look at this part on why I had this. I think it
> > was to make sure ei->d_children existed. But it may also need a test too. I
> > don't remember. :-/  

I believe this is to keep this and create_file_dentry() in sync.

But I need to look deeper. I'm still very new with understanding how all
this file system code works :-p

-- Steve